Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-04-16
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KANSAS NEWS.

The Southern Kansas depot at Harper, Is
/ e p enlarged, thing badly needed.
Senator Plumb proposes to put In three
/ drinking fountains in Emporia at his own
] expense.
Harper is to UNDERGO change which will
advance her from city of the third class 70
one Of the second class.
Marysvilie Nelgs: The shipment from
Perry HutchinsOn's mill, at Marysviue, last
year, was fifteen hundred and tWsntY-sey6n
car loads.
EllinwOOd Cypress: Mrs, :. ". Martin.
l living ten miles north of this place, gave
| birth this morning to triplets, two boys and
| one girl. Mother and children are all doing
1 we'll.
wellington Press: One of the brakemen
/ on q freight train, named Sherman, was re-
| Gently crushed between the cars in such q
manner that one of his limbs IL crushed to
/ Jelly.
Dodge City LiUs Stock Journal: ". g
Sherlock and H. @. CherFingtOn we're ap-
pointed by the Ford County Immigration
| society as agents to work up eZcurs OLA in
| the eastern states.
Sterling Republican: Memorial college
| is to be us feet and inches by 4S feet and
| 3 ches, four stories high, including base
ment, and 100 feet from the ground to the
| final. It will contain Is class rooms, 2
/ society halls and one chapel.
Ness City Times: Mrs. Mary Bacon. Of
| Ness City, has been acting peculiarly, and
was especially so on the subject OF religion.
/ Her mind has finally given away under the
strain, and she will be sent to the asylum,
having been adjudged insane.
MuIvane Record: Mr.. Reed has been to
Chicago where he was shown the old hand
press upon which le Mormon bible was
/ printed. This press is the property of Mar
/ der, Luse 4 Co., and ia valued very highly
/ by them as relic of by-gOne days.
Garden City Sentinel: The burning Of
railroad bridge across the irrigGting ditch
about four miles east of this city, on Sun
/ day, delayed the west bound passenger train
nearly four hours The damege was re-
| paired by gang sent from this city,
Newton Kallsnn: Railroad men employed
upon the Santa Fe branch from Hutchinson
| to Kinsley, say it keeps the section hands
| along the same busy most Of the time dur
| ing this windy weather shOveiing sand on
| the track in ORDER that the trains may run at
| all.
Dodge City Journal: Mayor Webster has
returned from his trip to Chicago, at which
| place he purchased two large engines and
/ two dynamos Tor the Electric Light and
Heating company of this city, which Is 60
| displace their present engine power for the
/ electric light.
| Miss Frances Stotler, daughter Of Jacob
/ StOtler of the EmpCria Globe, WAS married
/ in that city on Thursday to Harry L. Woods,
/ q prominent business man of Wellington.
/ Only members Of the two families witness
cd the ceremony which was performed By
/ the Rev. B. Kelly.
! Lawrence Journal: It is stated that the
last collection Henry Ward Bsecher called
for in his church before his death was for
| books for the LeavenWOrth Soldiers home,
/ Mr.. Bescher stating that while the govern
ment had provided literally for the bodily
/ wants OF the old veterans, their mental
| wants had been neglected.
! Fort Scott Monitor: Miss Anna Myers, Of
! Parsons, eloped on Tuesday night and join
| ed her lover at MuscOgee, IN the Indian
| Territory, where he had come from Fort
| Worth, Texas to meet her. dis name y
/ Edwards, and the parents of the girl do not
approve the match and are badly worked up
over the affair.
! Parsons Palladium: A stranger giving
! his name as William Kelly and stating that
/ he was timer rom Texas, but that his
| home was in Georgia, was discovered sick
I On the streets by Marshal Mason last Friday
I evening. He was taken to the city jail,
! where he died in a few hours Of congestion.
/ The remains were inferred IN the pOtter'a
field.
jamestown Ramsan: In school district
| No. SO, adjacent to Topeka on the west, the
! board is composed Of three lawyers, j. g.
/ Wood, g. W, Huron and David A. Harvey.
! In district As, west of North Topeka, the board
Ia composed o. three ministers, Rev. 1. n.
| Watkins, Rev. Peter Baker and Rev. n. o.
| Holman. One district has the law, the 9th
/ or the gospel. A combination Of the two
would make district impregnRble.
Junction City Union: In eZcavatlng for
| CraWford's building on Seventh street q
/ stone foundation was uneEEthed, which
beats the Oldest inhabitant. 1t was verg
| substantial, about three feet deep, covered
| with about foot Of dirt. 1t was thirty feet
! across from east 20 west, and about fifty feei
/ back from the street, on the north side
! VIII some Of our antiquarians think Up ana
tell what it was put there fOr2
! Wichita Eagle: Chas. Langberg, OF
/! Peoria, Illinois, found two horses in this
city which we're stolen from his stables in
| Peoria. One of the animals is a colt which
he values at LOCO and the other is 8 mare.
/ The former has been pure ased By M1Oarty
& Arnold and the mare by Butler. It was
long way to track and find stolen animals
] butt was successful track. Mr.. LangbeEg
| will prove property and take charge Of his
I valuable animals.